SOM students, alumni, and faculty to present papers at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 55th Annual Conference.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Seven School of Music graduate students, one recent musicology MA, and faculty member
J. Lawrence Witzleben, will present papers at the Society for
Ethnomusicology's 55th Annual Conference, the most important and competitive conference in the field of ethnomusicology. The papers to be presented are:
Jessica Abbazio: Music in the Non-narrative Silent Film: Erik Satie and Rene Clair’s “Entr’acte”
Greg Adams: “What is at Stake, and for Whom?”: Nurturing a Collaborative Environment for Banjo Roots Research
Michaela Cohoon: "I Just Start Dreaming and it All Becomes Music”: The Musical versus The Reality in “Dancer in the Dark”
Melanie Pinkert: Keeping Score: The Music of the Hollywood Western
Jan Protopapas: Verses of Attack: Namdhari Sikh Services of Hale da Divan as Sonic Weapons
Emily Robertson: It Looks Like Sound
Laura Schnitker: Rumblings of Revolution: Copyright, Control and the Rise of Independents in Post-WWII American Popular Music
Patricia Vergara: “My Music Plays Where the People Suffer”: Corridos Prohibidos and the Mapping of a Colombian War
J. Lawrence Witzleben: Re-imagining China’s Soundscape in the Film Music of Zhao Jiping